Tag Archives: 2009

Over-the-top free roaming action title Prototype topped the June software charts in the US, with the 419,900 sales enjoyed by the Xbox 360 SKU bettering both high-profile new arrivals and perennial sellers. The PS3 SKU shifted around 181,100 units. Much like the wider games market in North America, there were …

Amidst the gloom of yet more annual falls in the US video games market, hardware sales for June were better than expected hitting $1.7m – NPD had expected that number to be around $1.55m. As always, Nintendo’s machines were the star performers with DS shifting 766,500 units and the Wii …

Gaming’s recession-proof credentials took a further knock overnight with news that the North American video games market suffered its fourth successive month of decline in June, falling 31 per cent to $1.17bn.

 It’s the worst year-on-year fall since September 2000, a month that saw annual declines of 41 per cent. …

Over 500 people packed into the Hilton Metropole hotel last night to see 15 different firms or individuals take home a Develop Award. The full list of winners follows: CREATIVITY Best New IP LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)

 Best Use of a Licence Lego Batman (Traveller’s Tales)
 Visual Arts LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)

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Over 500 games development execs saw 15 different winners walk home with a Develop Award last night. The full-house ceremony in Brighton honoured the best companies working in or serving the European games development sector over the last 12 months. Media Molecule took him five prizes – for Best New …

The value of the PC digital distribution will comfortably sail past the $1bn barrier this year. According to Dorian Bloch, the business group director of GfK-ChartTrack – who was speaking on a panel discussion at this week’s Develop conference in Brighton – 2009 sales of games through the likes of …

Even its unexpectedly close proximity to a resurgent E3 didn’t stop IDEF making more progress amongst international buyers and distributors last week. The strictly trade-only event was again dominated by French and Italians, but overall numbers were up and the market’s mood was overwhelmingly positive. Held in its popular Cannes …

The bad news continues for the troubled Japanese games industry with new stats from Famitsu-owning Enterbrain showing that the total value of the region’s games market is down 24.4 per cent year-on-year for the period between December 29th and June 28th. A slump in hardware sales of 27.6 per cent …

Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training has seen its total UK sales surpass 3m, making it the most popular game ever in this country. The game itself finished seventh in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack’s H1 2009 UK sales chart. The full story is over on CasualGaming.biz – click here to take a …

Some good news for Blu-ray at last. New numbers from the British Video Association show that 3.1m of the hi-def discs have been sold so far in 2009 – that’s a 231 per cent increase on the same period last year. The knock-on has of course been a dip in …